Hi, my name is Dan Grigorovici and i am a Research Assistant and Ph. D. student at the Pennsylvania State University. I am working in the area of Virtual Environments effects on a host of psychological and marketing based variables (information processing, advertising effectiveness, etc.), in both Web-based VE and large display (CAVE, Immersadesk, etc.). My research has been published in books and presented at conferences. I am also a member of Web 3D, Siggraph, and other professional societies.
I was wondering if there is any possibility that i could talk to anyone at your company about what i would be interested in, which basically would be to use some of your VRML /3D content for research purposes (this involves use of your copyrighted content as stimulus in experiments that aim to test different types of content and design on users' information processing, a VRML /3D site usability and advertising effectiveness). This would help me with ready made content and if you would be willing to give me permission (depending on your conditions) and/or support for how to get it/use it, this will be GREATLY appreciated and your help will be acknowledged in any papers/conference presentations that this research will be shown/published at. I also assure you the experiments are part of research (academic) environment and in no way related to commercial purposes. I also assure you that in the event you would be willing to give me permission, the content will be posted on the Penn State intranet (as a closed lab study internal site, protected with "htaccess"), and NOT on the Internet. I am sure this would be in the interest of both parties. A phone contact would be great. Thank you very much. I appreciate your business, and if you could either direct me to some content that I could use (and how to get it) or to a developer that is willing to collaborate with me. If you need more info on my research, i will be willing to share my published papers with you. Let me know. Thanks for your interest. Yours truly, P.S.: I would need two-three VRML worlds from which should be highly arousing, rollercoaster-type , and one peaceful, nature-type. P.P.S.: I would also be interested in collaborating, if anyone is interested in this research program (since I am not a programmer) that is aimed at usability and social psychology studies effects of VE. In this respect, I was wondering if anyone could help me with the following: I was wondering if you have any knowledge of someone that has, or is able and willing to help me make/use his/hers javascript or CGI script, or anything else that could serve as the 3D/VRML version of what a log analyzer is in HTML: since in the experiments i am doing i am using SCR, EEG, and some other physiological measures in real time (along with post-test questionnaires), it would be nice and useful to see at what particular viewpoints and after what behaviors and in front of what places in the worlds the user shows more arousal/attention, etc., etc. Something that could work as tracking user movements in the world, the paths, with timestamps and specific actions and viewpoints followed in the stimulus world, and sending the log of this to me in a txt file or on the server where I could view it. This could nicely supplement my measurement instruments, making them more accurate. I was thinking: if something like this exists for a 3D environment, then Bruce must know about it. So do you know anyone having/interested in developing/willing to share (either a company or individual researcher/CG artist) or that has been used in the past and can be adapted for VRML/x3D ? Thanks for all your support. The results of this series of experiments will be presented at the ICA Presence Panel next year in San Diego, hopefully I'll meet you again there? Waiting forward to hearing from you. Thanks again. Thanks again. Dan M. Grigorovici Teaching Associate & Ph.D. Candidate Fellow of Institute for Information Policy College of Communications Media Effects Research Lab The Pennsylvania State University Office: Media Effects Research Lab, 306 James Bldg., University Park, PA 16802 Mailing address: 115 Carnegie Bldg., University Park, PA 16802 Voice: (814)863-1483 Fax: 775-320-1818 =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff JAVA3D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".
